Monday, December 30, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Mince Pie alert!
"Very fashionable mince pies are made at Strasbourg, in France, from the
diseased livers of geese, or other animals. These pies are now brought, in some
instances, to this country, especially to Philadelphia, and our other large
cities." with Robert May receipts, 1685..
Monday, December 9, 2013
Cranberries on the English moors, 1814
'The Cranberry Girl' picks cranberries on the moors of Regency Yorkshire. Though smaller, the cranberries tasted better than those imported from America and Russia...
Monday, December 2, 2013
Food History Symposiums, Exhibits 2014
11 activities in Amsterdam, York and Oxford UK, Greensboro NC, New York City, Chicago, Virginia and more -
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Thanksgiving leftovers
How do you eat the turkey after Thanksgiving dinner... sandwiches, pour heated gravy over cold slices, curried turkey? Some 1877 recipes to ponder: hash, escalloped turkey, and croquettes.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Turkey in Scotland
Monday, November 11, 2013
WWI Pumpkin Pie

Monday, November 4, 2013
Fall Fashion Trend - leaves

Labels:
Culinary History,
Dresses,
Food History,
Leslie,
Recipes
Monday, October 28, 2013
Colcannon Night

Labels:
Colcannon,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Halloween,
Holiday,
Ireland,
Recipes
Monday, October 21, 2013
Snap-apple Night
Trying to bite into an apple. on a string. revolving. with candles. what could go wrong?? Snap-apple was one of the games played on Halloween in Ireland and Scotland...
Labels:
Apples,
Carrots,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Halloween,
Holiday,
Ireland
Monday, October 14, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
National Angel Food Cake Day

Labels:
Angel Food Cake,
Cake,
Culinary History,
Food History
Monday, September 30, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Sandwich Carrots
"Sandwich-carrots! - dainty Sandwich-carrots." The 1796 print by satirist James Gillray portrayed John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich (1744–1814) putting money in the pocket of a street vendor. (British Museum online). Sandwich Carrots did not take their name from the Earl, but from the town. They were called red carrots but actually were "a very deep orange...and the most esteemed." [Hale, 1758] Recipes below are for boiling and for soup.
Labels:
Carrots,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Glasse,
Soup
Monday, September 9, 2013
Lady Baltimore Cake

Monday, September 2, 2013
Young cooks in a French kitchen, 1890s
Monday, August 26, 2013
Pickled and Stuffed Olives
Stuffing olives with capers or truffle pieces? Yes, in 1818. Grocery stores now sell all sorts of stuffed olives.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Chiffon Cake - a new sponge cake in 1948

Generally, sponge cakes were made with flour, sugar, and eggs - the whites beaten hard for leavening. No butter, water or baking powder/soda. The new Chiffon Cake had oil, water and baking powder.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Ice Tea, Sweet Tea history
Iced tea was given out free at a Tea Store in Macon, Ga, in August 1896 (ad below). Ice or Iced tea in the second half of the 19th century was made with green or black tea, or both - blended. Although generally brewed, there were early recipes for the tea made in cold water.
Early references to Ice Tea dealt with its immense popularity in Russia in the 1840s; and by 1860 it appeared in American books. The Russian influence was noted in recipes labeled Russian Tea or Tea a la Russe.
A northern cookbook contained the first recipe in a cookbook to brew sugar with the hot water – sweet tea – before the usually cited Old Virginia cookbook of 1877. Another early sweet tea appeared in a medical recipe. ...
Early references to Ice Tea dealt with its immense popularity in Russia in the 1840s; and by 1860 it appeared in American books. The Russian influence was noted in recipes labeled Russian Tea or Tea a la Russe.
A northern cookbook contained the first recipe in a cookbook to brew sugar with the hot water – sweet tea – before the usually cited Old Virginia cookbook of 1877. Another early sweet tea appeared in a medical recipe. ...
Monday, July 29, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Fried RED Tomatoes

Labels:
Culinary History,
Food History,
Kentucky,
Kentucky Housewife,
Recipes,
Tomato
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Yorkshire Range video

“The Old Black Lead Range” a seven minute video of Peter Brears cooking on the range is on Youtube HERE . The Yorkshire Range, popular in English kitchens from the 1850s, was an ‘open range.'
Monday, July 1, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Butter Shapes
Have you ever wondered what these objects were in the Dutch market paintings? Butter was sold in various shapes, sizes, weights and 'prints' over the centuries. The following Dutch and Flemish butter images from the 16th and 17th century show imprinted oval shaped butter.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Garlic Butter

Labels:
Butter,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Leslie,
Milk
Monday, June 3, 2013
Strawberry Cakes - Eliza Leslie
Probably the earliest Strawberry Shortcake recipe is by Eliza Leslie in 1847. It is a crisp cookie/pie crust cake, made richer if you use the pint (4 sticks) rather than the half pound (2 sticks) of butter - Leslie mentions both.
Labels:
Cake,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Leslie,
Pennsylvania,
Recipes,
Strawberries
Monday, May 27, 2013
HUGH fish smoker - 1779

Monday, May 20, 2013
Barding and Larding

Labels:
Culinary History,
Food History,
Larding and Barding,
Recipes
Monday, May 13, 2013
Incorporators for Salad Dressing

Monday, May 6, 2013
Codd Bottles
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Here's Milk, ho!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Spring Puddings and Rhubarb

Labels:
Culinary History,
Food History,
Glasse,
Pie,
Pudding,
Recipes,
Rhubarb
Monday, April 15, 2013
Shad fishing

Labels:
Cries,
Culinary History,
Fish,
Food History,
Maryland,
Pennsylvania,
Planked Fish,
Shad
Monday, April 8, 2013
Smithsonian food exhibit
Monday, April 1, 2013
Fools

Labels:
Culinary History,
Food History,
Fools,
Glasse,
Leslie,
Randolph,
Recipes
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Irish Potato Pudding

Monday, March 11, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Liotard and a breakfast conversation

Labels:
Chocolate,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Liotard
Monday, February 25, 2013
Pictures on Pinterest
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Chocolate by Liotard

Labels:
Chocolate,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Liotard
Monday, February 11, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Flour bin at Zoar
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Charles Darwin and... rice??

Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Cochineal

Labels:
Cochineal,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Jelly,
Recipes
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Food Symposiums - 2013
5 events in UK and USA
Labels:
Culinary History,
Events,
Food History,
Symposiums
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Twelfth Night pranks

Mischievous boys would nail, NAIL the coat tails to the sills or pin adults coats together.. as many as "eight to ten persons." ...
Labels:
Cake,
Culinary History,
Food History,
Twelfth Night
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